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Basmati Brown
paths, passages, cross and open
By Phinder Dulai
AVAILABLE
0-88971-172-0
Nightwood Editions
5.25 x 8.25
· 96 pages
Paperback
· $16.95
2000
"Here is a real made book. . . performance poetry, rich nouns, a montage of material for a world you probably haven't seen yet. With puns and jabs, Dulai memorializes his heritage — and wrestles it to the ground."
—George Bowering
"These poems constitute a journey. Poetic ports along a raging ocean. Not places in the concrete sense, but ghosts of memories — familial, political, social, spiritual and sensual. Literally, they offer up many references to the migrant life in Canada, and yet, they speak of home and homeland without nostalgia, and with a clear place of connection — British Columbia... We are all parties to our own personal blood narratives; one can never turn away from family lineage." —Phinder Dulai, in Preface to Basmati Brown
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